Tag: Metropolitan Police

The blue police box on Earls Court Road

August 26, 2022

Cue the Dr. Who theme.   During my visit to London and my old haunts from the 1980s  in Earls Court, I spotted an old blue police box just by the tube station. I had been back in London for a day or so and was coming out of the Greggs on the right (excellent egg […]

Who was the kid who slept through the last big royal wedding?

December 7, 2010

When British Prime Minister David Cameron told the London Sun that as a 14-year-old, he, his brother, sister and pals had traveled to London and slept on The Mall so that they could see the July 1981 wedding of Charles and Diana,  I remembered  the kid. The kid who also came down specially to see […]